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Authority. Matthew 21

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  Matthew 21 : 23-32  " Authority" Open to the Great Mystery for an Opening Prayer. From: Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life "Please, Lord, join me on the road, enter into my closed room, and take my foolishness away. Open my mind and heart to the great mystery of your active presence in my life, and give me the courage to help others discover your presence in their lives. Amen."  ( This prayer seems at the heart of all that follows here and opens up the issues with our denials and saying no to God) Henri Nouwen  The meditation today is about authority and where we go with that in our own lives.  It is said a message should have one purpose and that the other points should follow from that.  In this Gospel for today Jesus' authority is being challenged by the chief priests and the elders .  " By what authority do you do these things?"  Matthew 21 :23 The chapter begins with a familiar event as Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon the borrowed...
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Jude 3

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  Jude 3.   " What does it mean to earnestly contend for the faith?"    A classic book which I was unacquainted with was one of the rewards of seminary education that I had in 2003.  I was fortunate to be chosen to go to get another degree in the Army at another seminary  .  I was blessed to be able to go and teach Army Soldiers with it in ethics.  .  One taught a course on the Lutheran who died at the hands of the Nazis before the Americans liberated the prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  He is well known in many Christian circles, The Cost of Discipleship, 1949. I will admit I never heard of it until 2003.  He writes about the Sermon on the Mount: " Grace is costly...because it is God's grace in Jesus Christ...Is the price we are paying today with the collapse of the organized Churches anything else but an inevitable consequence of grace acquired too cheaply?... We poured out rivers of grace without end, but the call to rigorously foll...
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